Ronnie MB

The Pain Train film shows a change from electric to diesel northbound at Crewe.

I suspect the figure for Culrain collapsed when the Youth Hostel closed.

While we are getting angels to dance on the head of a pin, does Victoria Station count as a GWR station on the basis that the GWR jointly leased one side of it (the Chatham line, although the lone is probably immaterial)?

I still own - though no longer use - my Psion 5mx. It was never used for train spotting, but a lot of work got done on it between Downham Market and King’s Cross!

Could that have anything to do with the fact that the commuters affected by problems might have been at work (or still on their way there) between 9 and 10 in the morning?

I can’t recall the exact wording but I am reminded of a line in the Yes Minister episode about an integrated transport policy: “It’s no longer enough to blame management when there’s an r in the month and the unions when there isn’t: management and the unions have finally got together and are saying the government’s fault.” The more things change the more they stay the same?

Coming to this topic late, but wanted to go back to something mentioned early on: York’s Bradford counterpart is a cautionary tale of how a good museum can be dumbed down very quickly.

Could the layout be justified by a backstory about this being the former junction of a now lifted branch?

A publicity booklet issued during electrification can Ben found here: http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BRE_GNElectric1973.pdf There is a picture of the interior for the new stock, but it is in b&w and doesn’t show very much.

I’d need to check the details, but I think the guard’s role was an issue in the Paisley Gilmour Street inquiry. I seems to remember that the guard claimed he had tried to put the brake on when he realised the DMU had passed the platform signal at red but had missed the handle when he went for it.

The BTF film Measured for Transport shows something like this being used in the early 60s. The film is on YouTube.

Ian Smeeton: In other versions, Washington was very firm and Lincoln didn’t even squirm! Meanwhile, I don’t think you are recalling Flanders and Swann themselves but Armstrong and Miller parodying them thus:

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned a little ditty on this subject and here is a version of it:

There is some footage of an exhibition train in the BTF film This Year By Rail.

I remembered about the correspondence someone had with ATOC about routeing and published on the internet - the pages still exist on Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704113243/http://www.rossrail.com/central/routeqn1.html PS Don't try any of this at home, boys and girls!